[mat-dev] About the "force" option in the GUI

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Author: jvoisin
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To: mat-dev
Subject: [mat-dev] About the "force" option in the GUI
Hello,
I am currently working on the GUI, to make it more robust and clear.
I was thinking about the "force" parameter; when ticketed, files marked
as "clean" are not processed.

The concern is that some file can not be clearly marked as clean (eg.
PDF): only superficial metadata can be checked.

I think that the way to go is to completely remove the "force"
parameter, and to clean the file anyway (since cleaning process are all
lossless(except maybe PDF, but the loss is really minor), we can process
files as much as we want).

Drawbacks:
- process a file takes more time than doing a simple check

Benefits:
- this simplify the GUI
- this prevent mistakes
- this simplify ( = completely remove) the classification process

What do you think ?